Collection of Tennessee Electric Power Company records, 1933-1939.

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Collection of Tennessee Electric Power Company records, 1933-1939.

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Clippings, financial data and legal documents collected by Jo Conn Guild, then president of TEPCO, covering his company's challenge of the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority and public power. Included is material on flood control, electric generation, and distribution systems.

ca. 79,800 items.

Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

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SNAC Resource ID: 7237010

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Guild, Jo Conn, 1888-

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Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...

Tennessee Electric Power Company

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Tennessee Electric Power Company (TEPCO), formed on May 27, 1922, when the Tennessee Power Company, Chattanooga Railway & Light, and the Chattanooga and Tennessee River Power Company merged; operating from 1922 through August 15, 1939, at which time all properties were transferred to the Tennessee Valley Authority. From the description of Tennessee Electric Power Company records, 1905-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 272425794 ...